On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Tod Matola wrote:
> Thomas Baker wrote:
> > -- This seems to involve creating a catalog (descriptive
> > metadata) about all sorts of things, including XML schemas and UML
> > classes. The DCMI registry, in contrast, should be in essence a
> > database of schemas themselves (not just metadata about schemas).
> > Is the API designed to handle schemas?
>
> Remind me again why we need the schema in registry (or should that be
> repository?). It is not the canonical copy (or is it), but rather a
> cached copy that faclitates naviagation (which might be the answer). But
> collecting the metadata about the schema seems to do this as well.
Original copy or cached copy -- I have no opinion about that. The
distinction I was making is between indexing a description of a schema
(only) as opposed to indexing the schema itself, to make it possible to
search (for example) for elements that have to do with "title".
Tom
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